Re: [Freedos-user] Info for GUI FreeGem

2012-07-25 Thread Mark Blain
Jim Hall jh...@freedos.org wrote in news:CAHvaD3Yo3uwpNDAAZoSGdt64sa5=rSJe6ybEyJmYe3PaCXbpyw@mail.gmail.c om: Hi. Shane Coughlan was the main person behind FreeGEM. It is a very nice GUI; I was also a fan of GEM back in the day. Shane's FreeGEM website at http://gem.shaneland.co.uk/ seems

Re: [Freedos-user] Code pages in dot-matrix printers

2011-05-06 Thread Mark Blain
Henrique Peron hpe...@terra.com.br wrote in news:4dc2ebc0.30...@terra.com.br: I just read a PDF file Epson ESC/P Reference Manual. It explains that 24-pin printers can receive definitions on 241 characters into its RAM but those 9-pin LX printers cannot. They can only receive 6 characters.

Re: [Freedos-user] Code pages in dot-matrix printers

2011-05-06 Thread Mark Blain
Henrique Peron hpe...@terra.com.br wrote in news:4dc42724.7020...@terra.com.br: Hi Mark, it's not about willing to accept. Unfortunately, printing on graphics mode seems to be the only common denominator among all brands and models of printers. Naturally, if someone needs a character

Re: [Freedos-user] Help: FreeDOS serial support

2011-03-12 Thread Mark Blain
Hui Li openlinuxsou...@gmail.com wrote in news:1299943360.7385.4.ca...@dhcp-14-156.nay.redhat.com: BTW, if I wanna return to normal back. How do I do? My cmdline is ctty aux And furthermore, I notice that VIM cannot work properly under console mode, the contents will be shown on the screen

Re: [Freedos-user] Help: FreeDOS serial support

2011-03-11 Thread Mark Blain
Lee Eric openlinuxsou...@gmail.com wrote in news:AANLkTik0R8PLJF5szh9Hfd9mZGqqL5sjeq0GH_=u8...@mail.gmail.com: Dose FreeDOS support serial console device? Could I redirect the contents to a serial console device like Linux? I think FreeDOS can use serial console device. Try CTTY AUX.

Re: [Freedos-user] Doubt on batch stuff

2007-04-26 Thread Mark Blain
Geraldo Netto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: (actualy winnt cmd)... Winnt cmd is quite different than freedos command. If you are looking for an efficient winnt cmd solution, you may want to repost your question in news:alt.msdos.batch.nt

Re: [Freedos-user] Delorie.com?

2007-04-17 Thread Mark Blain
Jim Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 4/17/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know, by any chance, what happened to delorie.com? It appears to have vanished. Looks like the web server is down, or otherwise unreachable: # host

[Freedos-user] More FreeDOS usage-Higher Price?

2007-02-27 Thread Mark Blain
A recent thread More FreeDOS usage mentioned that Dell provides a FreeDOS CD with some of its computers. There's a related discussion in grc.techtalk (http://www.grc.com/discussions.htm) regarding Linux on Dell pcs. It gave an example of one pc where Dell charges $53 (U.S.) more for a FreeDOS

[Freedos-user] More FreeDOS Usage: Pricey

2007-02-27 Thread Mark Blain
A recent post (end of January) mentioned that Dell now puts a FreeDOS CD in the box of some of its low-end PCs. A related post in grc.techtalk (a discussion group at grc.com) regarding Dell bundling Linux on pcs indicated that, at least sometimes, Dell charges more for a system with FreeDOS

Re: [Freedos-user] | MORE as normal text?

2005-04-11 Thread Mark Blain
On Mon, 11 Apr 2005 21:06:04 +0400 (MSD), Fox wrote: 11--2005 18:50 Fox wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: F I want to redirect to a file a text containing the string | more. How can F ECHO my text | more my text myfile.txt echo my text | more my text myfile.txt But this

Re: [Freedos-user] GIF2PNG for DOS (not really FreeDOS related)

2005-03-29 Thread Mark Blain
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:44:24 +0200, Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (in part): I'm searching a converter GIF - PNG for DOS with transparency support, anybody knows something about? NetPBM is a huge set of converters for graphics files, and a DJGPP version already exists.

Re: [Freedos-user] DESCRIPT.ION files under FreeCOM

2005-03-28 Thread Mark Blain
On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 17:37:46 +0200, you wrote: I was using 4DOS for a long time, and I used a lot of the decript.ion files support (descriptions of files/directories available for example with DIR) Now I'm using FreeCOM, because of its localizing capabilities, but I can't use DESCRIPT.ION